[Evolution] where are the details and messages stored?

[Dan Saint-Andre <saint grillongroup org>]

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:25 +0000, evolution-list-request gnome org wrote:
>     Message: 4
>     Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:08:45 -0400
>     From: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>
>     To: evolution-list gnome org
>     Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable
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>     On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote:
>     > {rant}
>     > As it is, things keep changing so rapidly that it is nearly
>     > impossible to stay aware of what the conventions are. 
>     > $HOME/dot-something  files  and $HOME/dot-something.d folders were
>     > fine for decades as the convention for where "applications" kept their
>     > details. Now it seems that the details are being made subordinate to
>     > the desktop environment according to some awful logic.
>     > {/rant}
>     
>     Actually it's all spelled out by a cross-desktop standard:
>     http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>     
>     The advantage being the base directories are relocatable by way of
>     environment variables, and disposable cache data versus configuration
>     files versus valuable user data stays cleanly separated.
>     
>     Matthew Barnes

Thanks, Matthew !!

     This seems like it will be an interesting read.  Now, how do I discover which apps
and distros are subscribers to these practices?

     While I'm there, I'll look for other interesting documents, but can you suggest other
places where one might find useful and similar readings?

Merci d'avance,
~~~ 0;-Dan